lebron james

Microsoft hooks Bing to LeBron's 'Decision'

Somehow I find it hard to believe that LeBron James needed a "decision engine" to make The Decision.

Nonetheless, Microsoft's Bing has graciously offered its sponsorship of what is easily the most ridiculous combination of hype and entertainment since Geraldo Rivera found two liquor bottles in a downtown Chicago hotel: the one-hour prime-time television spectacle that is scheduled to air Thursday evening on ESPN chronicling "The Decision," when James will announce which National Basketball Association team he'll allow to pay him hundreds of millions of dollars over the next several years. Bing is also … Read more

Microsoft shuts down LeBron James

In a move that might be a lesson for my beloved (and, just occasionally, beloathed) Golden State Warriors this Friday, Microsoft has shut down LeBron James.

Two years ago, MSN and the Cleveland Cavalier superhero who looks 35 and is, allegedly, 13 or 14, announced big plans.

Now the deal, just as that of Buick and Tiger Woods, has floated down the Styx with Charon the boatman.

While no one believed that Tiger Woods would ever have allowed even his Secret Service doppelganger to actually own a Buick, there was at least some reason to conjecture that a LeBron James … Read more